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Walkers Fundamentals 2019 Private Equity Trends - Part 2

The willingness of investors to remain locked in for longer is also reflected by the increased number of evergreen or permanent capital private equity funds in the market.

British Business Investments commits up to GBP100m

It expects to generate a commercial rate of return from a diversified portfolio of fund and company investments, which will be selected and managed by experienced alternative asset managers.

Danish firm buys stake in African trade financier

TDB has membership comprising of 22 states drawn from Common Market for Eastern and Southern, East African Community and South African Development Community.

Octopus UK Multi Cap Income Fund tops the IA Equity Income ranking after first year

The FP Octopus UK Multi Cap Income Fund is ultimately designed to deliver better than market earnings growth aiming to drive capital performance for investors

Hedge fund increases stake to 12% in Ted Baker

The company said it had been the “most challenging in our history”

Hong Kong tycoon snaps up £65m penthouse after Boris Johnson victory

He completed the deal with Beauchamp Estates as the results of the election emerged on Friday, paying almost £10m in stamp duty in the process.

UAE offers emerging European investors opportunities in an increasingly wide range of sectors

Croatia is already present in the country, thanks to the start-up STEMI, whose robots are teaching people from UAE how to programme, create 3D-models and their own mobile apps.

Investing for the Future,Now: Delegation, Sustainability and Investor Engagement

If your trustee board has not recently reviewed its governance structures around investment decisions, the publication of the revised guidance provides a good opportunity - and useful examples - of how you might proceed.

Boris Johnson victory: Boost for the pound, economy and UK financial assets

Many traders were caught off guard by the size of the majority and this may push the pound even higher than previous predictions.

Cboe Global acquires EuroCCP

The transaction, which Cboe plans to fund with cash on hand, is expected to close in H1 2020.

France injects €2.5 billion into Africa to finance SMEs

Revealing details of the financial solutions to SMEs and start-ups in Accra, Deputy CEO of Proparco, Djalal Khimdjee said they are working to increase capital injection on the continent from 2.5 billion to about 3 billion euros.

TB Amati UK Smaller Companies Fund celebrates its 21st Birthday

The first two years were all about finding a pathway through the recession which followed the dotcom boom, and in 2001 I had my first experience of full-scale fraud in a company I had inherited.

Schroders Outlook 2020: Private equity

Investors’ emphasis on ESG will increase further in 2020, which aligns well with private equity’s long timeframes and higher engagement.

How pragmatism underpins RGP's rising ambitions in Europe

Grounded in the more traditional interim and co-sourcing work, RGP has in recent years been enriching its model with more advisory and project work, explained Hans Wichink, Vice President Delivery Europe at RGP.

London Stock Exchange welcomes Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust

ORIT’s investment objective is to provide investors with an attractive and sustainable level of income returns, with an element of capital growth, by investing in a diversified portfolio of renewable energy assets in Europe and Australia.

Millions of investor funds left minibonds ahead of collapse

The High Court heard this group of people included LCF managing director Andrew Thomson, Simon Hume-Kendall, Elten Barker and Spencer Golding.

Tobam launches Swiss equity strategy seeded by local pension fund

It adds that its patented Maximum Diversification approach "is designed to offer a neutral allocation to all the effective independent risk factors available to each market."

St Andrews luxury hotel and golf course sold to Hong Kong investors

The luxury 520-acre Fairmont St Andrews resort includes a 211-bedroom hotel with cliff-top views, championship golf courses The Kittocks and The Torrance, a ten-treatment room spa and five restaurants and bars.

UK-based Apis Partners hits final close of second fund at $550m, exceeds target

Apis Growth Fund II expects to make equity investments of between $30 million and $50 million into financial services with a focus on capital-light financial services and fintech companies across the growth markets of Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia

The dark side of transparency

Corporate disclosure is a double-edged sword, suggests Darren Bernard

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